The Week UK

The Week covers the Best of the British and Foreign Media. With its non partisan reporting, The Week gives the reader an insight into all the the news, people, arts, drama, property, books and how the international media has reported it. This concise guide allows the reader to be up to date and have a wealth of knowledge to allow them to discuss all these key topics with their friends and peers.

It wasn’t all bad

The lockdown leaks

Sunak’s small boats plan

THE WEEK

The Week

Sue Gray’s new job

Spirit of the age

Good week for:

Bad week for:

The DUP “star chamber”

Strikes called off

Poll watch

Europe at a glance

The world at a glance

People

Castaway of the week • This week’s edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs featured the comedian and writer Robert Webb

Viewpoint: Godless Guides

Farewell

Carbon offsets: a licence to pollute? • The carbon offset market is booming – but is it all a con?

Sucking carbon from the sky

Best articles: Britain

IT MUST BE TRUE… I read it in the tabloids

Best of the American columnists

Divided America: is it time to dissolve the union?

Best articles: International

Death in Crotone: the tragedy of a migrant boat

What the scientists are saying…

Elephants can sniff each other out

Preventing diabetes

Pick of the week’s Gossip

The Arena bombing: an avoidable atrocity?

Covid: was a lab leak to blame after all?

Bakhmut: “the pincers are closing”

Boris Johnson’s honours: family favours

Wit & Wisdom

Statistics of the week

Football: a “nightmare” defeat for Manchester United

F1: is the season already a write-off for Hamilton?

Britain’s new star of the track

Sporting headlines

Pick of the week’s correspondence

Covid, cruelty and forgiveness

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

Old God’s Time

In Good Hands

Theatre: Shirley Valentine • The Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 (0800-912 6971). Until 3 June Running time: 2hrs

Albums of the week: three new releases

Film

Daisy Jones & the Six: glossy Amazon drama about a 1970s rock band

Exhibition of the week Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle • Barbican Art Gallery, London EC1 (020-7870 2500, barbican.org.uk). Until 21 May

Where to buy… • The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery

How Ron’s Place was saved

Best books… Blake Morrison • The poet, novelist, critic and memoirist picks his favourite books. His latest memoir, Two Sisters, has just come out, published by The Borough Press at £16.99

The Week’s guide to what’s worth seeing

The Archers: what happened last week

Television

New to subscription TV

Rural retreats in Ireland

What the experts say

Recipe of the week: lu rou fan

New cars: what the critics say

The best… pressure washers

Tips of the week… on interior design

And for those who have everything…

Where to find… four new international museums

This week’s dream: yachting in the Caribbean

Aristide Hotel • Syros, Greece

Getting the flavour of…

Last-minute offers from top travel companies

Formidable parliamentarian who became Madam Speaker

The BBC commentator known as the “voice of football”

Companies in the news …and how they were assessed

Home Reit: a case study in the perils of ESG investing

Seven days in the Square Mile

Issue of the week: Arm and the London malaise • Britain has lost its main tech champion to New York. What might...